36 - the number of Egyptian arms export licences revoked by the FCO following unrest in Cairo

11,000 - the number of people on death row across the Commonwealth

25 million - UK cluster munitions taken out of service

70 - the number of countries where same sex relationships are illegal

109 - the number of countries who have signed up to protect the human rights of disabled people

5 million - the number of children in Pakistan helped by UK support to attend primary school

266 - the number of private military or security firms who have signed up to a new code of conduct

He added that systematic reporting of human rights issues in Rwanda and Egypt could soon be introduced.

The £1.5m is additional to the Foreign Office's £5m democracy and human rights spending for the coming year and "will be devoted to projects to promote freedom of expression online and the implementation of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights".

He said the funding would be focused on 28 countries covered in the report - including China, Russia, Libya, Israel and Iran.

Britain had worked specifically to protect online freedom of expression in 2011, the report said, and had "worked with other countries to prevent the internet being used as a means of political repression".

But the annual audit noted that 199 bloggers and online campaigners had been killed around the world last year.

Mr Hague said human rights had deteriorated in 2011 in Somalia, Belarus, Eritrea and North Korea.

And he insisted the report addressed areas where the British government had "fallen short".

"This applied to our efforts to address past allegations of British complicity in extraordinary rendition leading to torture."

The government will hold a "judge-led inquiry" into the the issue once "all police investigations have concluded, to establish the full facts and draw a line under these matters", according to the report.